PM Modi to inaugurate Katra-Sangaldan direct rail link connecting Kashmir to rest of India

By our Special Correspondent

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to virtually flag off two specially designed Vande Bharat trains between Srinagar and Katra on June 6. The event will mark a historic milestone which is the completion of the long-awaited railway link connecting the Kashmir Valley to the rest of India, a project that began over four decades ago. The world’s highest railway bridge, Indian Railways’ first cable-stayed bridge and longest tunnel T-50 (around 13 km) is on the same 272-km long Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Line.